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Wonderful stay here!

I had a great stay here with very nice rooms, great breakfast, great happy hour and so nice warm cookies at night. I will be back and stay here again. Lovely rooftop view of Houston! Great location near conference center. I would definitely stay here again.

Room Tip: The 21st floor is great!

Stayed: October 2013, traveled solo

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Ask CindyO8972013 about Magnolia Hotel Houston

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Spent four nights at the Magnolia while in town for a conference, and could not have been happier with the hotel. First class accommodations from the minute I set foot inside the lobby. Front desk staff efficient and friendly. Room (18th floor) was exceptionally clean, well lighted, and comfortable. Bed linens were immaculate, bed was comfortable, and the arm chair was great for watching television (flat screen). Bathroom was also spotlessly clean, floor, tub, toilet, sink. Plenty of hot water and good shower head. Complimentary breakfast included scrambled eggs, breakfast burritos, sausage, bacon, waffle station, cold & hot cereal, fruit, yogurt, assorted juices, coffee and tea. Happy hour from 5:30 to 6:30 included two free drinks (draft beer, house wine), and the milk and cookies after dinner was a nice touch. Location was convenient to the convention center, and we found several excellent restaurants within an easy walk of the hotel. Only complaint was the cost of parking. I understand this is a downtown hotel, and car space is at a premium; however, at the rates charged to stay here, $28 per night for parking is excessive - and being from New York, I KNOW excessive.

Room Tip: Higher floors would seem to have less street noise.

Stayed: October 2013, traveled on business

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Ask Paul B about Magnolia Hotel Houston

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Hotel: funky mod lobby with piped in music; second floor is a really large lounge that has free drinks for an hour each night and good food and reasonable prices. Bfast is a well stocked buffet. Pool is on the top floor and is tiny but there are good views from up there. Hot tub too. No one seems to use either.

Room: old hotels have odd shaped rooms but I like that. Interesting large and deep oval tub. Minibar was reasonable for beer. Room is not outstanding and the bed was good but not great. All rooms are nonsmoking so I am not sure what the other folks were smelling. I was on eight floor facing the back with a view of a parking structure. I'd of switched if there on vacation. Some loud AC noise when the main unit ran for about 15 minutes one evening when it was hot, so if you go in summer, get a street facing room.

Location: the hotel is right on the edge of the downtown historic district. There are several good restaurants and pubs within three blocks, with excellent outdoor dining options. Sambuca is particularly good, and there was live music every night. The area around market square has good restaurants too. Really good selection of beer all over the place. I had Texas pegged as swilling Lone Star and other lousy beers, but I found that I was wrong and that they are trying to be like Seattle or Minneapolis, two good beer towns.

Getting around:I walked to the convention center every morning. Took about 10 minutes. Main Street is two blocks up Texas, and there is a LRT that can get you to the main business district quick, though that is also only a 10 minute walk. I got hit up by a fair number of panhandlers though they were all quite polite and nonthreatening - better than many other downtowns I have been in. Hotel has a SUV that will haul you places for free too. There seems to always be a cab waiting and fares for anyplace DT are always $6 plus tip. I tried the b-bike rental at market square and can't recommend it. Houston is 30 years behind the rest of the cities for providing safe biking lanes and trails. Nerve wracking trying to ride on DT streets to get to the poorly maintained and incomplete trails along the river.

Why I gave it 5 stars: location and funkiness. Very different than a Hilton or Hyatt -much more fun.

Room Tip: Street side rooms in summer to avoid AC noise

Stayed: October 2013, traveled on business

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Ask auroraclubjazz about Magnolia Hotel Houston

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Really wanted to like this place. The furniture was really worn and the bed was saggy. The worst was the bathroom - there was enough hair on the floor to knit a sweater. I was very happy to check out of this place. Honestly, I would prefer a Best Western.

Stayed: October 2013, traveled as a couple

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We stayed in a suite for five nights in August. The room was very large, quiet and most importantly the air conditioning was superb as Houston was super hot and humid. The Magnolia occupies a historic building in Downtown Houston and is conveniently located to explore this vast metropolis. The rooms are in need of an update and more attention from housekeeping and the staff in general is needed to bring this hotel to the level for which strives. We received a call at 06:00 one morning to ask if we had ordered breakfast (we hadn't) then we had a knock on our door asking for the tray from breakfast. Yes, this actually happened. The good points besides the hotels location are the roof top with wonderful views of the city and the breakfast. I'd recommend the Magnolia with reservations, I've stayed in worse hotels, (namely the Hidden Hotel in Paris, worst hotel experience of my life), just don't expect a four star hotel and you won't be disappointed.

Stayed: August 2013, traveled as a couple

Ask Harold F about Magnolia Hotel Houston

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This is a Great Hotel to Stay at. We did a 24 hour getaway and asked for a quiet room / suite & that's what we got. Anything we asked for, we got right away. We asked for early checkin & late check out & we got it no extra charge. there was a ton of towels, comfy bed, comfy pillows, fast room service. The only things i would improve on would be a more "foody" type menu with better food choices altho the food was good just not crazy good and we're foodies) i also hate when we splurge on a suite, then get charges $6 per bottle of water in the room. i would throw in water for free lol. we've also had other hotels offer the free breakfast in the room which was totally cool! it's a great location, we'll come back again for sure!

Room Tip: ask for the big suite not the studio suite

Stayed: October 2013, traveled as a couple

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Ask joyce e about Magnolia Hotel Houston

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